A heavenly conference between Christ and Mary after His resurrection. Wherein the intimate familiarity,…

To come to the next, mark the order here, Go to my Father, and your Father. We are the Sons of God at the second hand. God is the Father of Christ first, and then ours. He is his God first, then our God.

This is a weighty point for directing of our devotion, that we may ⟨p. 147⟩know in what order to look on God. ¹See God in Christ, see all things in Christ first, and then in us. Look upon him as Father to Christ, and then to us. Look on him as a God to Christ first, and in Christ, a God to us. Look on him, as having elected us; but elect in Christ first. See our selves justified; but see Christ justified first from our sins, and his justification declared by his resurrection. See our resurrection and ascension, and glorification in Heaven, not directly; but in Christ our head, who is in Heaven, and taketh up place for us. See God loving us; but look on it in Christ, who is Sedes amoris. The next thing to God, is his Son, and he loveth none, but in him. When we consider of any spiritual blessing, say with the Apostle, Blessed be God who hath filled us with all spiritual blessings in Christ. Otherwise we do not know ²our selves, nor God. Whatsoever is derived from God to us, is through Christ: all promises are his first, they are made to him, and to our nature in him, and they are performed for his sake; he taketh them from God ⟨p. 148⟩the Father, and they be performed for his sake. He is the true Aaron, we are but the skirts, the Oil that is powered upon his head, runneth down to his skirts, it runneth to the meanest Christian; but the Ointment of grace is first poured on his head. Of ³his grace we receive grace for grace, and of his fullness. The first fullness is God himself, the second receptacle of all, is Christ, God-man, the third are we; we have it at the third hand. God emptieth himself into Christ, as Mediator. In him are the fullness of all riches, the treasures of all wisdom and knowledge, we are completed in him, and in him we are full. His is not only a fullness of the Vessel as ours is; but a fullness of the Fountain.